Calendar-support.



G. H. PAYNE.

CALENDAR SUPPORT.

APPLIUATION' FILED r3348, 1910.

11,023,329. Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

Shoe/Mow S A S CHARLES H. PAYNE, 0F CINCINNATI, OHIO CALENDAR-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented Apr. 16,1912.

Application filed February 18, 1910. Serial No. 544,721.

T 0 all whom 2' t may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful 1 mprovements in Calendar-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improved support for calendars, being more particularly directed to a support for use with an ordinary memorandum or pad calendar by which the latter may be conveniently arranged upon a desk or the like for the usual service.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a calendar support preferably constructed of a single length of material and arranged toperlnit the application thereto of a calendar in a simple and convenient manner, the support construction including independent and separable rests with one of which the calendar pad is adapt ed for cooperation and with the other of which the respective leaves of the pad are adapted to coiiperate when said leaves are removed from the pad proper to expose the succeeding date, the respective rests being so disposed with relation to each other that the transferred leaves are arranged in rear of and elevated above the exposed leaf of the pad proper, whereby to afford prominentdisplay to the current date and fully and completely expose both the current and immediatelypreceding leaf for convenience in consulting the records thereon.

The invention in-cits preferred details of construction will be described in the follow ing specification, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective View showing the improved calendar support with a calendar pad in applied position thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the support.

Referring particularlyto the accompanying drawings, the improved calendar su port is preferably constructed of a sing .e length of material, as wire, which, for the purposes of the present invention, is formed at one terminal to provide what may be termed a foot 1, projected from the upper end of said foot to provide a rest bar .2. From the terminal of the rest bar remote from the foot the material is projected to form an inverted U-shaped connecting section 3 and from the rear end of said section projected to form a return bend providing an auxiliary rest bar 4. The strands of material formin the auxiliary rest bar are arranged in vertical alinement with each other and are preferably of approximately equal lengths, so that the inner end of the lower strand of the lower rest bar terminates immediately adjacent a connection of said rest bar with the section 3. From the terminal of the lower strand of the auxiliary rest bar the material is projected downwardly at 'an outward incline to form an upright 5, and at the lower terminal of the upright projected laterally, transverse the length of the support, to provide a base bar 6.

The construction described provides onehalf of one section of the completed support, the remaining half being in duplicate and formed, as will be understood, by projecting the material upwardly and inwardly from' the base bar 6 to form an upright 7 corresponding to the upright 5, rearwardly from the upper end of the upright 7 to form an auxiliary restbar 8 corresponding to the rest bar 4, upwardly into inverted U-form from the inner end of the rest bar 8 to form a connecting section 9, forwardly from the end of the connecting section to provide a main rest bar 10, and downwardly from the forward end of the main rest bar 10 to form a foot- 11.

As previously stated, the respective sides or sections of the support are in duplicate,

that is the feet 1 and 11, bars 2 and ,10, connecting sections 3 and 9, the auxiliary rest bars 4 and 8, and the uprights 5 and 7 appear 1n transversely alined pairs to complete the article. The main rest bars 2 and 10 constitute what will be hereinafter; termed the main seat of the support while the aux iliary rest bars 4 and 8 constitute what will be hereinafter termed the transfer seat.

. The respectivesections of the support are so arranged that the support will rest upon the desk or the like through contact of its feet 1 and 11 and base bar 6 therewith, in

which position the bars forming the main seat Wlll incline upwardly and rearwardly from the feet with relation to the surface of the desk, while the auxiliary bars forming the transverse seat will incline upwardly and rearwardly from the connecting sections and ate greater inclination to the surface resting on the transverse seat.

'peditious manner.

of the desk than that of the main rest bars. By virtue of the outward inclination of the uprights 5 and? the base bar 6 has a length exceeding the Width of any other portion of the support, whereby a comparatively broad base isaiforded and accidental tipping or overturning avoided.

The calendar pad is arranged on the support by passing the feet 1 and 11 through the openings 12 in said pad and guiding the pad along the main rest bars and upward on the initial sections of the connecting sections until. the backboard of the calendar pad rests upon the main rest. The upper sheet of the pad is thus exposed and in a position to permit the application thereto of convenient memoranda. As each sheet 13 of the pad'is to be removed to expose the next succeeding date it is separated and carried upward over the connecting sections and downward until it rests upon the transverse seat, in which position the reverse side 14 of said sheet is fully exposed, for the reception of data or for the convenient consulting of the data previously described on said sheet bysimply turning back the sheet Both the main and auxiliary seats have a length less than the length of the pad sheets, thereby permitting them to be conveniently handled without interference.

The device as a whole is extremely simple and durable, combines lightness and strength and provides for the application of the calendar padthereto in a simple and ex- It is of course contemplated that the device may be ornamentally finished and that the feet 1 and 11 and base bar 6 may be provided with any of the well known means to prevent such parts from marring the surface of the desk in the shifting of the support.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, is

1. A holder for calendar pads having apertured leaves consistingo'f a single piece of wire bent to form a frame having an open end and sides onto which the leaves of the pad may be threaded from the open end of the frame, the end portions of the frame constituting front and rear seats for the leaves of the pad and the sides of the frame intermediate their ends being bent upwardly to form filing arches connecting the seats.

2'. In a holder for pad calendars having apertured leaves in combination, a pair of parallel wire filing arches, means for supporting and connecting the ends of the wire at one side of the arches, the ends of the wire at the other side of the arches being turned outwardly to form a frame having an open end onto which the leaves of a pad may be threaded and passed to the arches, and the said frame constituting a seat for the said leaves when filed on the arches.

3. A calendar support constructed of a single length of material bent at the respective terminals to form feet, projected therefrom to form spaced parallel seat bars, projected from the terminals of the seat bars to form connecting sections, projected from the terminals of the connecting sections to form auxiliary seat bars, projected from said auxiliary seat bars to provide a depending base, each auxiliary seat bar including a double strand of material, and the base being projected from the auxiliary seat-bars adjacent their connections with the connect ing sections.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' CHARLES H. PAYNE. Witnesses:

L. R. ENSW'EILER, RUTH L. MARSH. 

